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What a great story Paul! Thank you so much for sharing it with us. I hope you inherit her genes as well! I am 61 and remember finding a Ben Franklin half on the ground when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I thought I was rich too!  It bought a LOT of candy at the drug store. |
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My mother also saved the very first Jefferson nickel she got back in 1938 when she would have been sixteen years old. In her will she has stated that I will receive that coin. Talk about a provenance! Paul Bulgerin
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Great story Paul!
It reminds me of a story my late Father told me a long time ago:
It was in the early thirties when my Dad and his younger brother were walking home from school one afternoon in the small town of McKinney in North Texas. It was raining, the dirt road was muddy and they stumbled upon a coin purse laying in the mud in the middle of the road. They opened it up and discovered two one dollar bills and about thirty cents in change. Being the good kids they were they rushed home and handed the coin purse over to their mother. She searched the purse for some kind of ID but to no avail. The excited two brothers had already decided they were going to quit school! My grandmother said otherwise! She took the two dollars and went and bought groceries like they had never seen before. The two boys ended up with the thirty cents and they still felt rich!
Times were tough during the Great Depression years.
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06/18/2017 12:34 pm
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This is going off topic, but when I was 6 or 7 years old, my younger brother and I found a wallet with almost $20 in it. This was the 70's. We didn't tell anyone about it and we spent the money on candy an comic books. At the time, it was awesome. My parents weren't the kind to give us everything we wanted. My Mom noticed and asked where we got the money for all the stuff we got. We tried to hide what happened, but she grilled us until we fessed up about what we did. When my Dad got home, he took out a switch and we rolled up our pants. We got ten lashed on our calves as my Dad went over not taking something that didn't belong to us, how the person who lost the money must have felt, and that what we had done was stealing. The wallet didn't have ID so my Dad donated $20 to a shelter and we had to work off the money with extra chores.
I don't hit my kids, but they have to put their hands up above their heads and think about what they did wrong through the pain of stiffening arms when they have done something that needs immediate correction. I want them to learn that their actions have consequences - both good and bad. Hopefully I can teach them as well as my parents taught me.
Happy father's day folks!
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.comEdited by numismatic student
06/18/2017 2:50 pm
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My mother was born in 1921 and one of the first coins I collected as a kid in the 1970s was a Morgan silver dollar dated 1921 that she had saved as a teen in hope chest. Like the OP's mom she struggled during the Depression but somehow she kept that Morgan. She passed away 2 years ago but I still have that Morgan. |
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Great post with a lot of wonderful stories.
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I'll bet it was an 1804 Dollar!
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My Mom was 11 years old and in fifth grade when her dad died in 1929 the beginning of the great depression. She was the oldest girl of seven kids and left school after 5th grade to work as a housekeeper. Her Mom was too proud to accept the little public assistance that was available at the time.
Later when she met my dad and they got married things got slightly better but we never had much in the early days. She did have a jewelry piece that was a 1921 Morgan and I loved looking at it. Later she gave it to me and it is my most cherished coin - not worth anything to anyone but me.
Member ANA and EAC "You got to lose to know how to win". Dream On by Aerosmith |
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That's a wonderful story, thank you for sharing! It's stories like these that make numismatics extra rewarding!  |
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We need more of these stories, I love to read all the replies one of the best threads for me
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United States
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Great story. Especially after reading To Kill A Mockingbird, it's really neat to know someone who lived through that tough era. One of my favorite parts of the book is when Jem and Scout find two Indian Head cents in a tree. To think that it's still possible to even find those in circulation today! |
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I do still have a 1/2L stein from Germany that used to have a silver lid. My grandfather had to sell it during the depression as money was nearly non-existent.
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Thanks for sharing! These stories are the true gems whether or not the subject coin is still around.
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